I had a piece that was washed with Synthropol but it never did quit bleeding -- then the color was pretty drab, that fabric went into a stuffing for a dog bed.

I've used fabrics like this to "dye" pieces of white or bleached muslin that I can use in other projects! :thumbup: I paid for that dye, I might as well benefit from it. :D

Jan in VA

Don't keep washing it over and over, that just wastes water. Simply put it in plenty of hot water, toss in a couple of color catchers and leave it overnight. I have successfully treated every single bleeding fabric this way.

Just shows how prewashing is essential so our quilts are not ruined by a bleeder.

Great idea.

I had some fabric that bled a couple of times. I cut a square of it and a small piece of the white and washed with a color catcher - the white picked up nothing so i moved forward.

Wow, I wasn't ready to give advice, but loved all the advice I read.

After 20 changes of water that was still brightly colored, I discard the fabric if I can't return it.

I will try to return it to the store if I still have the receipt. Sometimes the clerk tries to give me static, but I consider a bleeder to be defective.

I don't mind - overly much - washing a fabric a couple of times to get rid of excess dye.

However, a fabric that bleeds indefinitely really ****** me off.
I feel that there should be NO necessity to further treat a commercially dyed fabric to stop it from bleeding.

Now that is very interesting! I guessing that just because a fabric bleeds into the water doesn't necessarily mean other fabrics will pick up the dye. Seems like a good test would be to wash scraps of all the fabric in the quilt and see what happens?